We should make them as human as possible, with emotions even, and then pull the plug on them at some arbitrary age limit. That'll work great!
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I'm able to swap a few cables here, and insert my DRM keychain into this slot, and after it authenticates with the Palladium servers...
Yes, but the Palladium server at Bill's office runs version 2.5.8.6.31 and the one at the demo runs 2.5.8.6.32. It detects the dicrepancy and automatically gives him a jalapeno enema for attempting to thwart the federally mandated protection schemes. The authorities are contacted and he is given 5 years in prison for his heinous crime on society.
Why should companies care about what software their devices run but for the fact of profit.
Because they can't deliver a coherent platform to their customers. IBM and HP have internal divisions competing against each other, and if you just call them up, they'll recommend the platform du jour rather than anything they have a solid lasting investment in. Hell, HP sells five server processors (Xeon, Itanium, Alpha, PA-RISC, Opteron) and four operating systems (Windows, VMS, HP-UX, Linux). What will it be tommorow or a year from now? Another processor? Another OS?
Invariably, they are basically reprints of man pages and newsgroup postings, which leaves the reader sorely missing that $50 from their wallet. I swear that there is no shortage of documentation on-line, so why do publishers keep turning out these dust collectors? Are people so naive they keep buying them?
Save your money for good books like Solaris Internals or Design Patterns. You'll learn tons more than re-reading the man page for BIND, that's for sure!
The _external_interfaces_ don't change often, but a lot can change under the hood in Solaris. Solaris 9 has/tmp in a RAM disk and journaled filesystems and improved threading and improved scheduling, etc., but it'll still run older binaries with no problem.
NT4 Workstation was state of the art at the time...
What? NT4 was a step back from NT3, and UNIX had already gone SMP and 64-bit when NT4 came out. After having seen the glory of Oracle on NT4, I'd even go so far as to say that NT4 was a steaming pile of shit. I was always in the process manager fighting with "you don't have permission to do that, loser" error messages, and I was "administrator"! It was awful!
Then, have someone else buy them for you, and you take them out for lunch, it works out. Your ISP will probably kick your modem off after 8 hours and your ISOs will likely be broken.
Holy cow, just buy the CDs. The post office will probably deliver your CDs before your download finishes, and you will feel decent about supporting the distro.
I only WISH a Unix/Linux vendor had the support MS does for thier legacy products!
Here is Sun's Solaris lifecycle. In fact, it looks like the latest patch cluster for Solaris 2.5.1 came out in September. Solaris 2.5.1 first shipped in 1996.
HP is a whore like IBM. They'll sell anything to get your money. They don't care if it's Windows, Linux, UNIX, x86, RISC, mainframe, whatever. If it sends bucks their way, it'll be in their catalog.
I wouldn't be suprised at all to start seeing complaints about legit software being removed. If Microsoft decides they don't like a competitor, it's "Death by Windows Update" for them.
If they started to make security easier, then why didn't they finish the job? That's like putting seat belts in a car but forgetting to bolt the seats to the floor.
Walking around Wal-Mart the other day, I noticed that all the kids in the electronics section were overweight (shorter and fatter than even me). I live in an area with below-average obesity rates, and, in general, there should have been a mix of regular-sized people with one or two fat people. Please tell me the statistical correlation here is imagined.
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Thankfully, it's pretty hard to do a phone/audio rendition of the goatse.
Goatse sound effects...*shudder*
How about /.TV?
Who would watch a 24 hour mud wrestling channel?
We should make them as human as possible, with emotions even, and then pull the plug on them at some arbitrary age limit. That'll work great!
I'm able to swap a few cables here, and insert my DRM keychain into this slot, and after it authenticates with the Palladium servers...
Yes, but the Palladium server at Bill's office runs version 2.5.8.6.31 and the one at the demo runs 2.5.8.6.32. It detects the dicrepancy and automatically gives him a jalapeno enema for attempting to thwart the federally mandated protection schemes. The authorities are contacted and he is given 5 years in prison for his heinous crime on society.
This is Slashdot, did you mean "Try the zeal"?
Why should companies care about what software their devices run but for the fact of profit.
Because they can't deliver a coherent platform to their customers. IBM and HP have internal divisions competing against each other, and if you just call them up, they'll recommend the platform du jour rather than anything they have a solid lasting investment in. Hell, HP sells five server processors (Xeon, Itanium, Alpha, PA-RISC, Opteron) and four operating systems (Windows, VMS, HP-UX, Linux). What will it be tommorow or a year from now? Another processor? Another OS?
Yeah, 15 bucks for "Step one: unplug your Ethernet cable. Step two: there is no step two."
Invariably, they are basically reprints of man pages and newsgroup postings, which leaves the reader sorely missing that $50 from their wallet. I swear that there is no shortage of documentation on-line, so why do publishers keep turning out these dust collectors? Are people so naive they keep buying them?
Save your money for good books like Solaris Internals or Design Patterns. You'll learn tons more than re-reading the man page for BIND, that's for sure!
Okay, you win. Your patience is admirable.
Stuff in Solaris dosen't change often...
/tmp in a RAM disk and journaled filesystems and improved threading and improved scheduling, etc., but it'll still run older binaries with no problem.
The _external_interfaces_ don't change often, but a lot can change under the hood in Solaris. Solaris 9 has
NT4 Workstation was state of the art at the time...
What? NT4 was a step back from NT3, and UNIX had already gone SMP and 64-bit when NT4 came out. After having seen the glory of Oracle on NT4, I'd even go so far as to say that NT4 was a steaming pile of shit. I was always in the process manager fighting with "you don't have permission to do that, loser" error messages, and I was "administrator"! It was awful!
Swirling vortex?
Just wait until the goatse.cx man unveils his hidden singularity! Then, we'll see who has the last laugh!
I think you are talking about NT 3.x, not 4.x
Then, have someone else buy them for you, and you take them out for lunch, it works out. Your ISP will probably kick your modem off after 8 hours and your ISOs will likely be broken.
I'm on 56k...
Holy cow, just buy the CDs. The post office will probably deliver your CDs before your download finishes, and you will feel decent about supporting the distro.
I only WISH a Unix/Linux vendor had the support MS does for thier legacy products!
Here is Sun's Solaris lifecycle. In fact, it looks like the latest patch cluster for Solaris 2.5.1 came out in September. Solaris 2.5.1 first shipped in 1996.
Actually, this is an opportunity for everyone who isn't Microsoft, not just Linux.
Even for Wal-Mart, these kids were butterballs. It wasn't encouraging.
HP is a whore like IBM. They'll sell anything to get your money. They don't care if it's Windows, Linux, UNIX, x86, RISC, mainframe, whatever. If it sends bucks their way, it'll be in their catalog.
Some of VIA's CPUs have built-in compression and encryption hardware that would seem perfect for a DVR.
I wouldn't be suprised at all to start seeing complaints about legit software being removed. If Microsoft decides they don't like a competitor, it's "Death by Windows Update" for them.
If they started to make security easier, then why didn't they finish the job? That's like putting seat belts in a car but forgetting to bolt the seats to the floor.
Walking around Wal-Mart the other day, I noticed that all the kids in the electronics section were overweight (shorter and fatter than even me). I live in an area with below-average obesity rates, and, in general, there should have been a mix of regular-sized people with one or two fat people. Please tell me the statistical correlation here is imagined.
Testicle-frying has completely displaced Pokemon at school, dude. I don't know what you're smoking, but super-notebooks is where it's at.
They facilitated the whole spyware market, so why should we stop them from reaping the rewards? Go Microsoft!